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Ellis Hinnant-Will is a native of Virginia Beach, VA, with roots in South Florida and old North Carolina
.
2019 Virginia Artist Juried Exhibition.
2018 Virginia Artists Juried Exhibition- Award of Distinction for Painting
Virginia Artists 2016 Juried Exhibition.
"Handle with Care" Juried Invitational 2016
"Up to Now" her 2015 exhibit of wall hangings and paintings at the Meyera E. Oberndorf Central Library Gallery distilled her travels to the realm of dreams.
Ms. Hinnant-Will studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, l’Academie des Beaux Arts, Antwerp, Belgium, Florida Atlantic Universityand Georgetown University Graduate School of Languages and Linguistics.
Her first one woman exhibition at age 21 was at the Maitland Art Research Center (now The Maitland Art Center.) Her paintings have since been in regional and national juried exhibitions including, The Annual Allied Artists of America, New York City, The National All of Paper Exhibition, Buffalo, NY, the Biennial, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA, The Contemporary Art Center of Virginia (now MOCA, ) Virginia Beach, VA, the former Norfolk Museum (now the Chrysler Museum), Norfolk, VA invitationals and one person shows at Tidewater Community College Visual Arts Center, The Suffolk Museum, the Annual Mid-Atlantic Exhibition, d’Art Center, Norfolk, VA, The Coast Guard Museum, Virginia Beach, VA and the Meyera Oberndorf Central Library
Gallery.
She has taught classes and held workshops at the Center for Contemporary Art of Virginia and the Chrysler Museum.
Ms. Hinnant-Will is an activist as well as an artist. She has worked at the Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Brazil Safaris and Tours, the US Migrant Education Program and served in the Peace Corps. She is a former Virginia Beach Human Rights Commissioner, former Virginia State
Certified Family Mediator, EMT and Rescue Squad member, and former board member of the Virginia Polytechnic Public Policy Institute as well as
organizer and participant in numerous national and local Kettering Foundation Public Dialogue projects.
She is a member of the Old Beach Design Review Committee.
